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Continue reading →: A January Look at the Garden, part 2
I already told you that the unprotected plants were more than living up to my expectations. Let’s take a look at the plants under the fabric row cover. The spinach is clearly doing very well. There are a few scorched leaves from cold damage and maybe some disease. Overall, the…
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Continue reading →: A January Look at the Garden, part 1
Today was my first look at the garden after being gone for 16 days, during which time the temperatures have ranged from in the 60s down to a bitterly cold 8 degrees. (For my readers farther north or south – yes, in Kansas parlance, single digits above 0 is bitterly…
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Continue reading →: Persimmon Salsa & Preserved Basil
Not being a Southern girl, persimmons are not in my cooking lexicon. My only experience with them was learning to distinguish between them and tomatoes for a horticulture judging contest in high school. So, when one of our Master Gardeners gave me 2 Fuyu persimmons from her father’s tree in…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay & Temperature Data
Only have a couple pictures this week, since all the fun stuff is happening under the row covers! The larkspur seedlings are more visible now after we harvested most of the lettuce in the open bed. They are doind just fine in the cold weather. Some of the thyme is…
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Continue reading →: Winter Weather
I wasn’t going to post today, but I just went out to read the temperatures from over the weekend (just the overall maximum and minimum since last Friday morning). We got down to 16 degrees last night! Still, some of the lettuces that are outside and unprotected are still looking…
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